Hollywood Starts with Animation

April 4th is Thursday.

Today is a good day, the first film "Lola Run" by the Hollywood "big" director Zucker was officially released. Of course, the time is 10 o'clock in the evening, which belongs to the early stage, and tomorrow is the premiere day.

You said there was no premiere? !

Man, you think too much!

Do you think there will be a premiere for a movie with a rookie director, rookie actors, and a new company that cost only $800,000? Moreover, even if the premiere is held, no one will come.

Zucker and Wald Pictures, no fame!

Of course, even if there was no premiere, Zucker reluctantly took out his wallet and set up a screening room, and let the entire Wald Pictures, SpongeBob SquarePants House employees, including the main members of the crew, come to watch the movie. Well, some friends of Zucker also came to join us.

Such as: negotiation expert Kandi, barrister Zhang Wei, Lasseter, the leader of the Pixar Five Tigers, and others.

"Zuck, I can't believe there are five more reporters."

Sai Huang pouted, and the whole person seemed very happy. "Lola Run" is her first film with a female lead, even at a lower cost.

The young version of Professor X didn't care much, and smiled: "Charlize, keep calm, you must know that you are the heroine!"

Although James McAvoy is young, but his family education is good, he looks neither humble nor arrogant, and extremely mature.

There are five reporters?

Ha ha!

Zucker and Victor smiled at each other.

These five reporters alone were hired by Victor. Well, it's called publicity fees.

Otherwise, for a film with no three companies, where would reporters come?

"Zuke, congratulations, your first film as a director has finally been released. I believe it will be successful, um, just like our original "Toy Story" at Pixar."

John Lasseter was in costume today, too, dressed much better than he was when Toy Story came out. That's right, now he's rich, a millionaire.

"Thank you for coming, my friend."

For John Lasseter, Zucker is grateful.

Not just because of his arrival today, but because of his great efforts in the release of "Lola Run" and the connection to the cinema line. Otherwise, the managers of the cinema line will not pay any attention to Wald Films at all. For the cost of 800,000 US dollars, how many screens do you think the theater line will give you.

"Man, if you say that, I'll be proud."

Lasseter laughed.

Strictly speaking, "Lola Run" was able to achieve 355 screens on its premiere day in California and Utah, which is already quite a remarkable start for Wald Pictures. Of course, this is mainly because it is April, and they are mainly low-budget movies or late-stream movies from big companies.

Otherwise, if you look at the summer season, Thanksgiving season, and Christmas season, the current Zhu Ke can get 100 screens from the hands of large companies, which is considered awesome.

The movie starts quickly.

The Wald Pictures label "SpongeBob SquarePants" appears first.

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A movie theater in Los Angeles.

The film that is being shown is "Lola Run". There are not many audiences in this show, only 12 people.

"Hey, I said buddy, you don't sleep, play games, or go to bars at night, and you actually ask me to watch a movie? Buddy, we are two big men! Besides, what kind of rubbish movie is "Lola Run"? There isn't a single familiar star, and I've never heard of Wald Pictures, the production company."

A black guy was chattering constantly at a fellow white guy.

Hearing this, the white guy didn't care, but said, "Tom, you're right, the director and actors of this film are indeed not famous, but haven't you seen the production of "Lola Run"? Is this the sign of the person?"

Producer's column?

The black guy Tom was stunned for a moment, and then he read the introduction in the movie ticket?

Lola Run Producer: John Lasseter!

"oh,

mygod, the producer of this movie turned out to be the director of Toy Story! "

For a time, Tom, the black boy, was obviously interested.

Shit producer!

In fact, Zhu Ke used the means of rubbing heat and touching porcelain in his previous life.

Because "Toy Story" is very popular, all Zucker finds John Lasseter and asks him to be the producer of "Lola Run" to increase the fame and popularity of the film. This kind of nominal method, in the great heaven of the 21st century, but the stalk is rotten, and ordinary audiences understand it. However, American audiences in the 1990s have not received this kind of edification many times.

Well, Zucker also paid Lasseter 2% of the box office profits for this.

That's right, this is Hollywood, and the brothers have to settle accounts. Even if it is to help, but you should give me the money, you can not less.

For this reason, Zucker gritted his teeth a lot, but the situation was like this, and he couldn't destroy it.

......

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Early the next morning.

Zucker got up early and drove to Wald Pictures.

At this moment, in Wald Pictures, in addition to the expatriate workers, the employees who can come have also entered the company early. "Lola Run" is the company's first theatrical film, and it was filmed by the new boss himself, so they can't help but take it seriously.

ten o'clock in the morning.

"Boss, the box office results of the early and midnight shows came out, with a total of 92,000 US dollars, ranking ninth among the films released in the same period." Victor Hui reported.

Yesterday, "Lola Run" played an average of two shows in various cinemas, with 355 screens, that is to say, an average of one screen contributed $259; a single screen for a single show was about $130.

This data doesn't sound like much.

At least it's a far cry from the $4 or $5 million figure at the midnight box office of Toy Story.

However, nowadays, the average price of a movie theater is 7 dollars, which means that the number of audiences for a movie is about 18, and it is still not counting the midnight time of the peak viewing time. It's actually a good start for a three-in-one movie.

success? !

"Boss, yes, our "Lola Run" is a success. If the word of mouth spreads in the later stage and the number of screenings is expanded, it can at least reach the box office of 3 million US dollars."

In fact, Victor's words are not finished, this is on the premise that no other films threaten "Lola Run".

"Ha ha!"

Hearing this, Zu Ke was not worried at all, thinking to himself: "I'm a traveler, I've already seen the information about these films released at the same time, except for "First Class Fear" produced by Paramount, which ranks in the annual North American box office rankings. No. 28 on the list, other movies are simply worse than others."

Is there no more bad movies in Hollywood?

Do not!

When it comes to the annual output of bad movies in Hollywood, it can be said to be the first in the world, even more so than the Great Celestial Dynasty.

Seeing the results of "Lola Run" at midnight, Zu Ke's worries were relieved. "Lola Run" has a score of 81 points on Douban in the future, which is the highest among North American movies in the same period in April in terms of quality. In a worse situation than anyone else, at least it can guarantee not to lose money.

It's hard to say, it can still make a lot of money, it's just a question of how much it can exceed the goal of 3 million US dollars.